Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children

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With obesity becoming one of the fastest-growing worldwide epidemics and manufactured food fuelling that trend, THE CRAZY MAKERS is timelier than ever. This updated edition includes a new chapter on autism, as well as revised material that illustrates just how much the industry has changed in a few short years. Based on extensive research, epidemiological evidence and a formal study of schoolchildren's eating habits, THE CRAZY MAKERS identifies how the latest food products may be literally driving us crazy. Carol Simontacchi offers the reader nutritional primers and recipes to help counteract the problems facing us and our children every time we sit down to eat.

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Carol Simontacchi is a certified clinical nutritionist in private practice in Portland, Oregon and the author of a number of books on nutrition including Fat is Not Your Fault. She lives in Florida.